Red Cross served 1,000 families in 2013

4:12 AM,
Jan. 1, 2014

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Red Cross volunteers reached out to more than 1,000 families struck by fires, flooding and other disasters in Western and Middle Tennessee in 2013, the agency said this week.

House fires were behind most of the local calls for help, but local volunteers were also dispatched to major disasters across the country, from flash flooding in Colorado to devastating tornadoes in Oklahoma.

Altogether, more than 3,400 volunteers in the Tennessee Volunteer Region of the American Red Cross worked 213,610 hours in 2013, the agency said in a prepared statement. Those numbers include work logged ...